pink

英 [pɪŋk] 美[pɪŋk]

n. 粉红色；化身，典范；石竹花；头面人物
vt. 扎，刺，戳；使…变粉红色；使…面红耳赤
vi. 变粉红色
adj. 粉红的；比较激进的；石竹科的；脸色发红的
n. (Pink)人名；(英、德、匈)平克；(法)潘克

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中文词源

pink 刺，扎，打孔，香石竹，粉红色，左倾的，与同性恋有关的

词源不确定，可能来自中古法语piquer,刺，扎，穿透，词源同pike,pick.或来自拉丁语pungere,刺，扎，穿透，词源同puncture.引申词义打孔，使成锯齿状，后用于指香石竹花，因其花瓣凹凸不平，有如锯齿而得名，因这种花多开粉红色花朵，后引申词义粉红色的。后引申俚语义同情共产党的，政治左倾的，同时，也用于指娘娘腔，同性恋。

词态变化

复数: pinks;第三人称单数: pinks;过去式: pinked;过去分词: pinked;现在分词: pinking;比较级: pinker;最高级: pinkest;名词: pinkness;

英文词源

pink: pink: English has three distinct words pink. The colour term [18] appears to have come, by a bizarre series of twists, from an early Dutch word meaning ‘small’. This was pinck (source also of the colloquial English pinkie ‘little finger’ [19]). It was used in the phrase pinck oogen, literally ‘small eyes’, hence ‘half-closed eyes’, which was borrowed into English and partially translated as pink eyes.

It has been speculated that this was a name given to a plant of the species Dianthus, which first emerged in the abbreviated form pink in the 16th century. Many of these plants have pale red flowers, and so by the 18th century pink was being used for ‘pale red’. Pink ‘pierce’ [14], now preserved mainly in pinking shears, is probably of Low German origin (Low German has pinken ‘peck’).

And pink (of an engine) ‘make knocking sounds’ [20] is presumably imitative in origin.
pink (n., adj.): 1570s, common name of Dianthus, a garden plant of various colors, of unknown origin. Its use for "pale rose color" first recorded 1733 (pink-coloured is recorded from 1680s), from one of the colors of the flowers. The plant name is perhaps from pink (v.) via notion of "perforated" petals, or from Dutch pink "small" (see pinkie), from the term pinck oogen "half-closed eyes," literally "small eyes," which was borrowed into English (1570s) and may have been used as a name for Dianthus, which sometimes has pale red flowers.

The flower meaning led (by 1590s) to a figurative use for "the flower" or finest example of anything (as in Mercutio's "Nay, I am the very pinck of curtesie," Rom. & Jul. II.iv.61). Political noun sense "person perceived as left of center but not entirely radical (i.e. red)" is attested by 1927, but the image dates to at least 1837. Pink slip "discharge notice" is first recorded 1915. To see pink elephants "hallucinate from alcoholism" first recorded 1913 in Jack London's "John Barleycorn."
pink (v.): c. 1200, pungde "pierce, stab," later (early 14c.) "make holes in; spur a horse," of uncertain origin; perhaps from a Romanic stem that also yielded French piquer, Spanish picar (see pike (n.2)). Or perhaps from Old English pyngan and directly from Latin pungere "to prick, pierce" (see pungent). Surviving mainly in pinking shears.

双语例句

1. He was holding a cloth that dripped pink drops upon the floor.: 他正拿着一块布，布上粉红色的水滴落在地板上。

2. A glass of red wine keeps you in the pink.: 一杯红酒有益健康。

3. Businesses are now more aware of the importance of the "pink pound".: 现在商家更加意识到同性恋族群消费力、即所谓“粉红英镑”的重要性。

4. Mr. Long was now cutting himself a piece of the pink cake.: 朗先生正在给自己切一块粉色蛋糕。

5. She was wearing a flimsy pink dress that streamed out behind her.: 她穿的那件轻薄的粉红色连衣裙在身后飘舞。

英英释意

1. a light shade of red

2. any of various flowers of plants of the genus Dianthus cultivated for their fragrant flowers

考试真题

Once every three or four years, when conditions are right, the lake is covered with the pink birds as they stop flight to breed.

My interest was aroused only by the fact that the word "poems" appeared in big, hot pink letters.

Swimming pools, wine tasting, and pink sunsets at normal evening hours, not 4 in the afternoon filled the weekend, but the best part- particularly to my taste, dulled by months of cold--weather root vegetables--was a 7 a.m. adventure to the Sarasot

girls' attraction to pink may seem unavoidable, somehow encoded in their DNA, but according to Jo Paoletti, an associate professor of American Studies, it is not.

It is not that pink intrinsically bad, but it is such a tiny slice of the rainbow and, though it may celebrate girlhood in one way, it also repeatedly and firmly fuses girls' identity to appearance.

It was not until the mid-1980s, when amplifying age and sex differences became a dominant children's marketing strategy, that pink fully came into its own, when it began to seem inherently attractive to girls, part of what defined them as female, at least

Pretty in pink: adult women do not remember being so obsessed with the colour, yet it is pervasive in our young girls' lives.

When nursery colours were introduced, pink was actually considered the more masculine colour, a pastel version of red, which was associated with strength.

实用场景例句

pale pink roses: 淡粉色的玫瑰

She went bright pink with embarrassment.: 她尴尬得满脸绯红。

the pink pound (= money spent by homosexuals as an influence in the economy): 同性恋族群消费力

She was dressed in pink.: 她穿着粉红色的衣服。

The bedroom was decorated in pale pinks.: 卧室涂成了淡粉红色。

...pink lipstick.: 粉红色的口红

...white flowers edged in pink.: 带粉边的白花

She went pink again as she remembered her mistake.: 想起自己的错误，她又脸红了。

Businesses are now more aware of the importance of the 'pink pound'.: 现在商家更加意识到同性恋族群消费力、即所谓“粉红英镑”的重要性。

A glass of red wine keeps you in the pink.: 一杯红酒有益健康。

This is the only species of flamingo in the region, easily recognized by its pink plumage.: 这是那个地区唯一一种火烈鸟, 很容易凭粉红色的羽毛辨认出来.

Many Chinese adults dress their children in brilliant orange, red and pink.: 很多中国的成人给他们的孩子穿鲜艳的橘黄色、红色和粉色的衣服.

Her dress has pink flowers on a white background.: 她的衣服白底子上有粉红花朵.

As the sun set, the sky shaded from blue to pink.: 太阳落下时, 天空逐渐由蓝色变成粉红色.

We were waited on by a pretty girl in a pink apron.: 招待我们的是一位穿粉红色围裙的漂亮姑娘.

His pink scalp gleamed through his sparse hair.: 他发红的头皮在稀疏的头发下泛微光.

It was a freak of mine to wear pink pajamas.: 穿上粉红色睡衣是我一时的奇想.

The dancer wore a headdress of pink ostrich plumes.: 那位舞蹈演员戴着粉色鸵鸟毛制作的头饰.

Pink and light blue go well together.: 粉红配浅蓝.

He wore an outlandish outfit of pink pants and green sneakers.: 他穿了一套稀奇古怪的衣装,粉红色裤子、绿色旅游鞋.

I think I'll commingle some of these blue flowers with the pink ones.: 我想把一些蓝花和粉红花搀在一起.

I really feel in the pink after a fortnight's holiday.: 度了两星期假后,我的确感到身体非常舒适.

The waterfall was lit up at night with pink and green floodlights.: 夜间的粉红色和绿色泛光灯把瀑布映照得辉煌夺目.

Severe cold turned our ears pink.: 严寒冻红了我们的耳朵.

She went bright pink with embarrassment.: 她尴尬得满脸绯红。

His face was a queer pink colour.: 他满脸奇怪的粉红色。

Through the basement window I saw him strap on his pink cycling helmet.: 透过地下室的窗户，我看到他正在把他那粉色的自行车头盔系在头上。

Mollie confesses she is rather partial to pink.: 莫莉承认她偏爱粉红色。

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